Researchers have argued against deficit-based explanations of students’ troubles with mathematical sense-making, pointing instead to factors such as epistemology: students’ beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning can hinder them from activating and integrating productive knowledge they have. But such explanations run the risk of substituting an epistemological deficit for a concepts/...

every kind of theorization and progress modeling, wether contiousely or uncontiousely, is based on and benefited from the epistemological, cosmological, anthropological, axiological foundations. for the iranian islamic model of progress, however, it is compulsary to recognize and refer to its own speculative understructures and use them intentionaly and exactly to produce the  best possible mod...

Attaining “Common Knowledge” is essential in the formation of deals and agreements, but hard to achieve over point-to-point communication networks such as Internet. While blockchain technologies provide a helpful mechanism form technical consensus, originally created resolve double-spending problem, little does it address impediments proper contract that have do with quality exogenous data, asy...

The paper contrasts two domains of school education, natural science and citizenship education (as a paradigm of “hard” and “soft” subjects), with respect to their epistemological and ethical foundations. A sharp contrast between their associated world-views within the school community is accentuated at the outset. The epistemological shortcomings inherent in both are subsequently explored, and...

We will understand this question as employing an epistemic ‘ought’ – insofar as we aim at developing a correct epistemological theory, ought we to trust our epistemic intuitions as evidence for or against our epistemological theories? As it stands, (Q) needs further clarification. Whether something is trustworthy is relative to what (a) what it is and (b) what we’re asking it to do. Sam might t...

If an epistemological distinction fails to carve at the epistemological joints, then it is not worthy of serious and protracted discussion. The residual issue of whether the putative distinction is incoherent or merely gerrymandered ought not to strike anyone as especially important. My own externalist commitments – epistemological and semantic -lead me to think that the a priori-a posteriori d...

A growing number of children with intellectual disabilities attend inclusive schools in Indonesia. Previous research has suggested that teachers' type of school and experience influences their beliefs about inclusive education. This research collected questionnaire data from 267 Indonesian teachers and compared the responses from those working in inclusive, special and regular schools regarding...

Now that complex Agent-Based Models and computer simulations spread over economics and social sciences as in most sciences of complex systems -, epistemological puzzles (re)emerge. We introduce new epistemological concepts so as to show to what extent authors are right when they focus on some empirical, instrumental or conceptual significance of their model or simulation. By distinguishing betw...

College students’ epistemological belief in their academic performance ofmathematics has beendocumentedand is receiving increasedattention.However, towhat extent and inwhat ways problem solvers’ beliefs about the nature of mathematical knowledge and thinking impact their performances and behavior is not clear and deserves further investigation. The present study investigated how Taiwanese colle...

Epistemology and Methodology in Development Studies are a special case. Due to the nature of the subject matter, the simple transposition of generic social science concepts and methods onto developing countries is often problematic. This paper is concerned with the distinctness of development studies and what this implies for ‘rigour’ in development studies research. The paper takes a journey, ...